"What do you Americans mean by 'petting' or 'necking'?" queried, last week, at Chicago, Canon William Thompson Elliott of Leeds, England. Then, to show himself a clergyman of the world, he hastily added: "Those words don't exist in England. The things which I imagine are referred to don't happen over there. I'm sure they don't."
To oblige the Canon, reporters ventured definitions:
" 'Petting' and 'necking' are about the same; but girls prefer to describe it by the former word and youths by the latter."
" 'Necking' is apt, strictly speaking, to be more violent but...
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